VLVL Rex Snuvvle

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In a message dated 2/16/04 4:13:38 PM, jbor at bigpond.com writes:

<< There's no conclusive textual support for any of the surmises about Rex
working for the FBI or DOJ or other authorities, of course. It's just as
likely that, like the Pisks, he has come from a privileged background which
allowed him to save up and buy the Porsche and live at the apartment at Las
Nalgas Beach. >>

Somehow frozen danishes, second hand battle fatigues and the
mention of a common department store seem a little less "privi-
ledged" than Rex's porsche, the seaside digs and the carefree grad
student existence... nice cover, if you can swing it.

<< There are indeed hints that Rex is collaborating with someone
(leaving the bag behind; the flat tires, phone calls and letters), but
nothing is confirmed. As I've said, the uncertainty which we as readers
experience in regard to who is betraying whom corresponds to the paranoia of
the times: in part, it's paranoia which is deliberately nurtured by the feds
(232-3), but it's also legitimate paranoia because there are infiltrators
like Frenesi in the middle of everything. >>

Rex is probably working for an org with a little more international
presence, but on loan- common in those collegially fascistic times-
to the FBI, or DOJ. Or, he could be hawking his talents to the highest 
bidder. He does seem to enjoy the finer things in life, despite his phony 
claims of asceticism for "the revolution."

<< I tend to think that Rex is sincere when he is talking with Elliot X
(230-1), and again after Frenesi tells him that "Weed is an FBI plant":

       "They're killing us, man," Rex earnestly face to face, "locking
    us in those federal slams, regular and mental, packing us away, this
    is who he's been working for all the time. Pretending. Reporting back
    on us?" (235) >>

He's directing attention toward the befuddled Weed in classic agent 
provocateur mode. Clearly, Rex was the intial "plant" Brock was planning
to use to destablize PR3, and Rex was getting close to Weed for just
that purpose. However, Vond didn't expect his main squeeze, Frenesi, to 
fall for Atman ("Plans  change" -216). Hurt and enraged, Brock decided 
to use Frenesi to kill Weed, more out of jealousy than the wiseguy fascist 
BS he tries to cover it with- "sooner or later the gun comes out" 
(240).

Ironically, given the opportunity, Weed's incompetence as a leader would
someday have led them all "up the wrong piece of trail." Frenesi's instincts
are always right- mainly because she's fighting against a system which
includes both Vond and Atman. She leads with her pussy and she fights 
with it, as well. All the guns will eventually get soft. No porno star, even 
with Viagra, can keep up with her. It is only her compassion, and through 
it, her sense of guilt, that threatens to bring her down. Yet, despite all 
the 
cockwars going on around her, and the weak males who would attempt to 
trap her by using her emotions against her, she's strong. With a little luck, 
she can bring all these dickheads to their knees. And please, don't feel 
sorry 
for Weed.

<< If the facts as we know them were presented to an impartial judge and jury
then Rex, Frenesi and Brock would be charged and sentenced. >>

Impartiality, like Newtonian Spacetime, is probably an antiquated and
unwarranted idealization. The facts as "we" know them, are in dispute.

respectfully